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Exactly. Europe too.

It's how people talk to groups of dozens of people at a time: friends, neighbors, acquaintances, the parents of your kid's school mates to discuss school stuff or to setup a birthday party… coworkers if you include more work oriented chat apps.

I have dozens of such groups, some with photos of kids around a birthday cake that I'd never have put up of Facebook (if I still used it).

If that's not social networking, I'm not sure what is.